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Black Lizard is a japonais film of genre Comedy directed by Kinji Fukasaku released in USA on 1 january 1968 with Akihiro Miwa
Black Lizard (1968)
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Add to a movie listBlack Lizard (黒蜥蝪 Kurotokage) is a 1968 Japanese detective film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
The film is based on a 1934 novel by Edogawa Rampo and its theatrical adaptation by Yukio Mishima, who, at the time, was the lover of Akihiro Maruyama, the actor who plays the notorious female criminal "Black Lizard" in drag.
The film's protagonist is Kogoro Akechi, a brilliant detective patterned on Sherlock Holmes who appears in several stories by Edogawa Rampo and is a fixture in Japanese popular culture.
The film currently has no official DVD release, and copies of the film are extremely difficult to find, but it has gained a cult following and is highly regarded by devotees of "kitsch" and "campy" films.
The novel Black Lizard has been published in English by Kurodahan Press in a dual edition with The Beast in the Shadow (aka Inju) [1].
Synopsis
Le film est construit autour d'Akihiro Miwa, célèbre artiste travesti, qui interprète le rôle d'une dangereuse criminelle surnommée « le Lézard noir ». Isao Kimura, qui interprète le détective privé Akechi Kogoro, est le héros masculin du film.Actors
Akihiro Miwa
(Black Lizard (Mrs. Midorikawa))
Isao Kimura
(Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi)
Kikko Matsuoka
(Sanae Iwase / Yoko Sakurayama)
Kō Nishimura
(Detective Matoba)
Koichi Sato
(Ohkawa)
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